Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Three-In-One Combo ❯ No Eye ( Chapter 9 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

Author's Notes: Rrg, I hate it when FF.N's down... The number of reviews is down again... Maybe it has to do with posting on Mondays? Maybe I should post on Sundays instead? JessiChi, sorry, but that's really about what happens when the Scales' power is used. Anubis is part of the story! I was brought up Christian too, but you've got to remember, it's just a story! I've been having a great time incorporating the Rod spirit into a later part of the story. Oh, it's very good. Much more torturing Scale, cause it's fun! Perhaps I didn't make myself clear in the last chapter's notes: I'm not doing any Seto/Ryou yaoi! I just have two characters who are a great deal like those two, and who are at least friends. I've never written a romance of any kind, and probably couldn't do it to save my life. Geez, you guys... Anyway, this is deviating from the Humor genre a bit... I'm not quite sure what else it is, though. Drama, maybe? Surely not action/adventure? And I really can't drag it back to plain humor. Scale was the humor, and since I decided to like him I have to make him a slightly three-dimensional character, so he can't be pure comic relief (though he's still mainly that). That and I'm really low on insults. But oh well... Again, if you have information about Malik and Isis's personalities, let me know! Scale has enormous mood-swings in this chapter. It's fun, you'll like it! Millennium Items on chocolate, whee! This chapter wasn't really needed, but since I like Pegasus and I think Shadi does too (not in THAT way, you yaoi-phobic freaks!), I felt obligated to do it. The plot will progress when I'm good and ready!
Scale: Indigo's obviously too incompetent to even buy some DVDs of the series, much less own the series itself. Don't even bother trying to sue her.


Three-In-One Combo!


Having just been shoved out of Ryou's mind, Shadi, Ankh, and Scale landed hard on the ground. They got up, brushing themselves off. Ryou still stood in front of them. He had a blank look on his face, but then he blinked, shook his head as if to clear it, and looked at them.

"I'm very sorry your time was wasted here," Ryou apologized.

"On the contrary," Shadi assured him. "I needed to assess the situation. I had my doubts, but now I believe that the cosmic balance will drift back to normal naturally, for the moment, at least."

Scale rolled his eyes and returned to his soul room. He seemed to glow, then became a stream of golden light that flowed into the Scales Shadi had.

Ankh walked up to Ryou and put a hand on his shoulder. A wave of greenness pulsed through Ryou from Ankh's hand. "I know you want to be his friend, but that doesn't mean you should let him hurt you in the meantime. This should make you feel better for now." Ryou looked confused, but far more comfortable and relaxed. He looked askance at Ankh, who smiled at him. "I used to be a healer. And the Ankh is a symbol of life, so it makes sense that I can still do this."

Ryou nodded, looking thoughtful. "The Scale spirit said Bakura was a tomb robber?"

"That's right. Not an easy life, which is probably why he acts the way he does now," Ankh responded. "It was very nice meeting you! Maybe we'll see each other again some time." With that, he returned to the Ankh around Shadi's neck in a stream of golden light.

"Well... thank you," Ryou said, looking at Shadi. "Is there... anything else I can do for you?"

Shadi thought for a moment. "Actually, yes. I believe Pegasus will have been taken to a hospital. Would you happen to know which one it might be, and how I can get there?"

"Well, the closest one is Domino Hospital," Ryou said, after a moment of consideration. "Just south of here, back on the mainland. It's right next to the ocean. If you take a boat due south, you can't miss it."

"Thank you," Shadi said. He walked away, knowing that Ryou would not follow.

"Umm... You're welcome," Ryou called after him.


When he got to the island's docks outside, Shadi paused to assess the situation. There was a small rowboat tied up, but that was all. Although his good sense of direction told him which way was south, he had never managed a boat before. Neither had Ankh or Scale. And thinking of their shared motion sickness, he didn't like the look of the tiny, fragile boat rocking sickly in the waves.

/I think we'd better chance another transport ritual. A slow one this time, that will take us south until we reach the mainland./

//Urg, I just recovered from the last one...//

\\You dolt, we're not doing that again.\\

/Oh yes, all right. If you like, you can take over and get us there in this piece of junk. Or you can come out and take the boat yourself. Well? Go ahead!/

//....//

\\...Just shut up and let's go...\\

/Ah, I thought so. How very kind of you to say that./ Using Anubis's power, Shadi sank into the ground.


Shadi rose up again and banged his head against a sign. Rubbing his head and muttering about stupid modern architects, he stepped back to look at the sign. It said "Domino Regional Hospital." Shrugging, Shadi walked over to the entrance. Knowing that hospitals were very picky about visitors, Shadi used Ankh's powers to suppress his life-force so much that a normal human would not notice him. He walked in, found a nurse looking at a chart, and by pure luck saw her putting a checkmark by the name "Pegasus J. Crawford." He looked at the room number and wandered off to find the Eye's former host.

On the third floor, Shadi found the right room. Glancing at the chart on the door, he saw that no one would be in to check on Pegasus again for another hour or so. He let himself in, closing the door behind him. Pegasus was sitting in the bed, propped up on some pillows and halfway watching cartoons on the TV. There was a patch of white gauze over his left eye socket. As Shadi entered, Pegasus looked up in surprise. "Shadi!" he exclaimed. "I lost the Millennium Eye. I'm sorry, I was weak and Bakura was too strong..."

"I know. I spoke to him," Shadi said. "He will keep the Eye, though its spirit was banished. I hope you don't mind too much."

"Oh no, I don't mind at all. It... spoke to me. It made me do things I never wanted to do. Are all the Millennium Items like that?" Pegasus asked.

"I'm afraid so. They all have their own personalities," Shadi answered.

"You must have no end of trouble, having two..." Pegasus said, looking at Shadi's Ankh and Scales.

//Come on Shadi, we're not ALL like that...//

\\That's it, I'm sick of this!! You think you and that pansy can just say whatever you want about us!? Any one of us is stronger than you! I could send you all to the Underworld! Ankh you moron, why do you suck up to these mortals!?\\

//Don't forget, we were mortals too. And you know they either don't mean it or don't know what they're talking about. So calm down!//

Pegasus was staring at the Scales, which were shaking with anger at Shadi's belt.

"You have no idea the annoyance they cause..." Shadi said. "Just ignore Scale, he's had a very... interesting day."

"I hope the Eye didn't give you any trouble," Pegasus said concernedly.

"Well, a bit. But Ankh and Scale actually handled him rather easily."

\\Oh, you thought it was easy? I don't remember you doing anything to help. Sure, it was easy to watch...\\

//I don't know if I'd call it easy either...//

"The Eye never really talked TO me, it just gave me orders. But yours talk a lot, don't they?" Pegasus commented, recognizing Shadi's glazed-over "listening" look.

"Yes," Shadi sighed. "I've grown accustomed to it by now. But... I hope you don't suffer too much from the loss of the Eye."

"Oh. No, don't worry about it," Pegasus said, looking down. "It made me finally accept Cecelia's death. And even if I had been able to bring her back somehow, what would she have thought of the things I've done? No, I'm glad it's gone." He paused to gingerly touch his eye patch. "And this will be a pain for a while, but I suppose it will be a reminder of past mistakes. Or something silly like that."

//I could heal him, Shadi.//

/Hmm... yes, you could. But to what extent?/

//Well, it would take a lot of energy, but I could make him a whole new functioning eye. It would work perfectly after a few days.//

/You can really do that?/

//Probably.//

Shadi looked back at Pegasus. "Ankh says he can heal your eye. He even thinks he can grow you a new one that will work perfectly, if you're interested."

"Grow me... a new eye?" Pegasus asked, his good eye wide with wonder. "If he could... I'd be eternally grateful!"

\\Oh please... Why are you wasting your time on this poof?\\

//Quiet, Scale.// The Ankh glowed and Ankh appeared beside the bed. Pegasus gave a faint gasp and tried to sink into the pillows.

"Please just relax. I won't hurt you, although it will probably itch horribly. That's it, hold still," Ankh said. He put his hands over the patch on Pegasus's face and carefully began to rebuild the damaged organ.

With a bright glow, Scale came out, looking bored and skeptical. "What a waste of time and energy..." he muttered.

Pegasus's good eye turned to Scale and he looked even more apprehensive.

"Scale, if you keep distracting him, I'll have to give you an unquenchable obsession with the color pink," Ankh said in a dangerously calm voice, not looking up. Scale merely raised his eyebrows, gave a derisive laugh, and went over to examine the television.

"Any reason you decided to come out?" Shadi asked his errant spirit.

"I hadn't been out for two millennia before today," Scale said, not really paying attention. "It's far more interesting out here than it is in your dark, boring mind..."

While Scale experimented with the TV's volume and channel controls, Ankh was finishing up with Pegasus' eye. "All right, keep your eye closed. I'm going to take a look," he said. He gently pried the gauze and tape off of Pegasus's eye. The eyelid was red and raw, but it looked like it was healing. He replaced the eye patch. "It looks good. Just keep the patch on for... three days, to be safe. Or at least keep it closed."

"The doctors here will notice that it's healed," Pegasus said, rather dazed. "What should I tell them?"

"Tell them you had it in your pocket the whole time," Scale said idly, as he gleefully pried the rubber buttons out of the remote control. "Got any more chocolateothers suddenly noticed that the large box of chocolates from Pegasus's servant Croquet was empty, with wrappers scattered around.

Ankh raised his eyebrows. "Umm... I'm not sure. Just... make something up, I suppose. I doubt they got a good look at it before with all the blood. And uh... sorry about your chocolate." He stared at Scale, who was folding the wrappers into shapes.

"Oh, um... that's all right, I guess. Thank you!" Pegasus said, rather baffled at this abrupt change of behavior in the strange Scale spirit.

"You're welcome," Ankh said. "I think I'll... go back to my soul room now..." And he did.

"What, don't you want any chocolate?" Scale asked, looking up. "Oh that's right, I ATE it all!" He burst out laughing. Shadi and Pegasus stared at him as though he had grown a second head.

"Scale, I think you'd better... go back to your Item too," Shadi said slowly.

"Not a chance, you pest. I like it out here," Scale said, throwing a handful of folded chocolate wrappers at him."

Shadi frowned in deep disapproval. He used his "ownership privileges" to draw Scale back into his Item. After an initial cry of protest, Shadi heard Scale's continued giggling and a groan from Ankh. Out in the hall, footsteps approached.

"Well, I'm glad we could help you. And again, I apologize for Scale," Shadi said. "I'm afraid I should go now. Write me a letter some time, Pegasus."

"Thank you so much!" Pegasus exclaimed. "Write to me, too. And if you're ever in the area again, come by my mansion for a while. Goodbye."

Shadi nodded and sank into the ground once more.


Endnote: Well okay, this chapter does have SOME significance later. But not a whole lot. Go forth and review!!